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JAPAN

A former MUFG Bank deputy branch manager was sentenced to nine years in prison on Monday for stealing cash and valuables from customers’ safe-deposit boxes.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 6, 2025
Ex-MUFG banker given nine years in prison for safe-deposit box theft
By Hideki Suzuki
Yukari Yamazaki had been indicted for stealing about ?390 million worth of property including cash and gold bars.
Shirakawago, a U.N. World Heritage site in Gifu Prefecture
JAPAN
Oct 6, 2025
Spanish tourist injured in latest bear attack
The 44-year-old tourist was pounced on from behind as he was walking to a bus stop on Sunday.
Newly elected Liberal Democratic Party leader Sanae Takaichi celebrates in Tokyo on Saturday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 6, 2025
Takaichi kicks off LDP presidency with polls showing strong support
By Himari Semans
Sanae Takaichi, who was elected party leader Saturday, also gave the ruling LDP a much-needed boost, one of the polls showed.
A Self-Defense Forces officer tries driving a passenger bus during an internship session in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture.
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Tohoku
Oct 6, 2025
Bus and taxi firms look to retiring SDF members to fill driver shortage
Many SDF officers retire in their mid-50s, and most of them hold a driver’s license for large vehicles, creating the potential for them to work as drivers.
A not-in-service train is seen derailed early Monday morning after colliding with a passenger train late Sunday at Kajigaya Station on Tokyu Railways' Den-en-toshi Line in Kawasaki.
JAPAN
Oct 6, 2025
Den-en-toshi Line trains collide, halting service
By Yukana Inoue
No one was injured in the collision, which saw one train derail and disrupted train services on two lines Monday.
Sanae Takaichi (left), newly elected president of the Liberal Democratic Party, and Yuichiro Tamaki, head of the Democratic Party for the People
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 6, 2025
DPP emerges as most likely candidate to help LDP's ruling coalition
By Gabriele Ninivaggi
With personal ties between their executives and policy proximity, the Democratic Party for the People seems the likeliest to help the Liberal Democratic Party-Komeito coalition.
Emperor Naruhito delivers a speech at the Science and Technology in Society forum in Kyoto on Sunday.
JAPAN
Oct 6, 2025
Emperor makes speech in English at international forum in Kyoto
The emperor said that there are a host of challenging issues related to AI that "require careful, thoughtful deliberation."
Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi (center) speaks to reporters on Sunday after meeting Taro Aso, the party's supreme advisor, at the party's headquarters.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 6, 2025
Suzuki eyed for LDP secretary-general, reflecting Aso’s growing influence
By Eric Johnston
Former Prime Minister Taro Aso's influence in the Liberal Democratic Party under the newly elected Sanae Takaichi is becoming increasingly more evident.
Articles in World War II-era women’s magazines emphasized their responsibilities in supporting soldiers and their roles at home bearing and rearing children.
JAPAN / Regional voices: Chubu
Oct 6, 2025
Lingering ‘Showa Model’ gender roles keep women sidelined
The idea of husbands working while women stay home goes back to the prewar Civil Code, which stated that women were subordinates who required their husband’s permission to work.
Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department headquarters
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 6, 2025
Member of boy band Ae! Group arrested on public indecency charge
Keita Richard Kusama is suspected of exposing his lower body around the entrance of a building in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward.
Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 6, 2025
性视界’s new leader to make nuclear center of energy strategy
By Shoko Oda — Yusuke Maekawa — Aaron Clark
A pro-nuclear stance would continue the policies of previous administrations, which have pushed to build new units and restart reactors.
Empress Masako (left), Emperor Naruhito (center) and their daughter Princess Aiko watch the World Athletics Championships held at the National Stadium in Tokyo in September.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Oct 6, 2025
Parliament talks deadlocked on 性视界's imperial succession
With no agreement reached during this year's ordinary session of the Diet, 性视界's parliament, prospects for a consensus of the legislature remain dim.
One of the unreleased pencil sketches believed to have been written by Osamu Tezuka that were recently discovered in Niiza, Saitama Prefecture
JAPAN
Oct 6, 2025
'God of manga' Osamu Tezuka's unknown storyboards discovered
The storyboards are "arguably the biggest discovery" since Tezuka's death in 1989, said Hajime Tanaka, head of materials management at Tezuka Productions.

ASIA PACIFIC

Vietnamese Communist Party General-Secretary To Lam
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 6, 2025
Vietnam's top leader to visit North Korea this week
Communist Party chief To Lam's visit will be the first visit by a Vietnamese leader to the largely isolated nation in nearly 20 years.
Association for Philippines-China Understanding (APCU) Chairman Raul Lambino shakes hands with guests during a ceremony for the Award for Promoting Philippines-China Understanding at The Manila Hotel in Manila in June.
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Oct 6, 2025
How China waged an infowar against U.S. interests in the Philippines
By Poppy McPherson — Karen Lema
China paid for a cyber campaign to weaken support for Philippine government policy and to sow discord over Manila's security alliance with the United States.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (center right) and Papua New Guinea leader James Marape pose with officials after the signing of the Pukpuk Treaty at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 6, 2025
With eye on China, Australia and Papua New Guinea ink mutual defense pact
By Gabriel Dominguez
The agreement is mainly intended to offset China’s expanding military clout in the South Pacific and prevent Beijing from projecting power through Australia’s northern approach.
Indian Army chief Upendra Dwivedi waves as he arrives to attend the ceremonial reception of Defense Minister Gen Nakatani in New Delhi in May.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 6, 2025
‘We have drawn lessons,’ Indian Army chief says of brief clash with Pakistan
By Gabriel Dominguez
India and Pakistan’s brief war earlier this year has offered numerous lessons on the evolving nature of warfare, according to Indian Army Chief of Staff Gen. Upendra Dwivedi.
People walk past the Taipei Liaison Office — Taiwan's representative office in South Africa’s administrative capital, Pretoria — in October last year.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 6, 2025
Chinese pressure shreds Taiwan’s relationship with South Africa
The dispute is a stark example of the precarious moment facing Taiwan in a world order upended by the U.S. under President Donald Trump.
U.S. President Donald Trump takes part in a welcoming ceremony with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing in November 2017.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 6, 2025
China hawks grow queasy over Trump’s push for deals with Beijing
By Shawn Donnan — Kate Sullivan — Ed Ludlow
As Trump pursues a trade pact with the U.S.’s biggest economic and strategic rival, advocates of a tougher China policy fear they’re being sidelined inside the administration.

WORLD

A Fisheries and Oceans Canada team patrols the Grand River in Dunnville, Ontario, in search of invasive grass carp specimens on Sept. 25.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 6, 2025
Americans and Canadians unite in battling 'eating machine' carp
If the battle against invasive carp were to fail, the consequences could be both dire and unpredictable.
Cuba Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez addresses the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 27.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 6, 2025
Citing Cuban fighters in Ukraine, U.S. urges allies to shun Havana at U.N.
By Humeyra Pamuk
U.S. diplomats will tell countries that the Cuban government is actively supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine with up to 5,000 Cubans fighting alongside Moscow's forces.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin shakes hand with U.S. President Donald Trump as they meet at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, in August.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 6, 2025
Trump says Putin's offer on nuclear arms control 'sounds like a good idea'
Any agreement on continuing to limit nuclear arms would stand in contrast to rising tensions between the United States and Russia.
The Capitol Building in Washington on Oct. 1. The mass layoffs of federal workers could begin if President Donald Trump decides negotiations to end a partial government shutdown are "absolutely going nowhere," a senior White House official said Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 6, 2025
White House says mass layoffs will start if shutdown talks 'going nowhere'
No tangible signs of negotiations have emerged between congressional leaders since Trump met with them last week.
French President Emmanuel Macron has reappointed most senior members from the Cabinet of ousted premier Francois Bayrou in a clear continuation of his centrist policy aims.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 6, 2025
Macron’s continuity Cabinet risks another government collapse
Most senior members from the Cabinet of ousted premier Francois Bayrou were renamed to their posts in a clear continuation of Macron’s centrist policy aims.
Federal law enforcement officers line up in the Brighton Park neighborhood in Chicago on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 6, 2025
Trump administration brands U.S. cities war zones
An escalating political crisis across the country is pitting Trump's anti-crime and migration crackdown against Democrats who accuse him of an authoritarian power grab.
British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood on the BBC's "Sunday Morning" political television show in Manchester, England, on Sunday. She will give police new powers to place limits on repeated protests
WORLD
Oct 6, 2025
U.K. to introduce limits on protests after synagogue attack
The move comes a day after police arrested nearly 500 people in the latest protest in Trafalgar Square in support of the banned Palestine Action group.
People attend a commemorative event organized by the Israeli community to honor the lives lost in the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023, at the Hebraica Club in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Sunday.
WORLD
Oct 6, 2025
Hamas calls for swift hostage-prisoner swap as Trump urges quick talks
The push follows Hamas' positive response to Trump's roadmap for an end to the fighting and the release of captives in exchange for Palestinians held in Israeli jails.
A member of one of Syria's local committees votes in the country's selection process to designate an interim parliament, in Damascus on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 6, 2025
Syria selects members of first post-Assad parliament
The process has been criticized as undemocratic, as instead of holding a nationwide vote, lawmakers are being selected by local committees and interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa.

BUSINESS

An Asahi brewery in Moriya, Ibaraki Prefecture
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 6, 2025
Asahi resumes beer supplies in 性视界 after crippling cyberattack
By Kanoko Matsuyama — Yui Hasebe
Some parts of the system are still shut and the company is processing orders manually to prioritize its supply framework.
A screen displays 性视界's 10-year government bonds and the rate of the yen against the dollar outside a securities firm in Tokyo on Monday.
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 6, 2025
Goldman sees 性视界 bond 'shocks' spilling over to Treasurys
By Ruth Carson — John Cheng
Global bonds feel the ripple from Tokyo as investors react to Sanae Takaichi’s election win and looming fiscal stimulus.
An investor watches a board showing stock information at a brokerage office in Beijing.
BUSINESS / Markets / FOCUS
Oct 6, 2025
Thriving emerging markets look poised to wrap up banner year
By Marcus Wong — Malavika Kaur Makol — Maria Elena Vizcaino
Sentiment has rarely been this buoyant, with an HSBC Holdings survey showing emerging markets fund managers as the most bullish since the start of 2021.
A customer pays for a coffee at a bar in Buenos Aires on Sept. 23. Many Argentines are traveling to Rio de Janeiro, Miami and the Uruguayan beach town of Punta del Este but, when it comes to shopping trips, most go to the Chilean capital of Santiago.
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Oct 6, 2025
Argentines blow billions shopping abroad, fanning currency crisis
More Argentines have traveled to Chile this year than have people from every other country combined, with their purchases with Argentine bank cards there soaring 438% this year.
Employees work on photovoltaic cell modules at a factory that produces the modules for export, in Lianyungang, China, last month.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 6, 2025
China is beating the U.S. in the battle for energy export dominance
This year, more than half of China’s electric-car exports have come from outside the OECD.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivers a keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January.
BUSINESS / Tech / ANALYSIS
Oct 6, 2025
Competition heats up to challenge Nvidia's AI chip dominance
Nvidia now boasts the world's highest revenue, driven by sales of its GPUs — the processors that are key to building the technology behind ChatGPT and its rivals.
A banner of U.S. President Donald Trump on the Department of Labor in Washington, on Thursday
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Oct 6, 2025
Fake job scams cost U.S. job seekers $12 billion as labor market tightens
By Beiyi Seow — Anuj Chopra
Employment-related scam cases rose by over 1,000% from May through July, when new graduates typically search for jobs, according to McAfee.
A monitor in Tokyo shows the Nikkei 225 index closing Monday at 47944.76, up 2,175.26 points from the previous week.
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 6, 2025
‘Takaichi trade’ takes Nikkei to record high
By Francis Tang — Kazuaki Nagata
Takaichi is a proponent of expansionary fiscal spending and monetary easing, which is believed to have fueled market optimism and led to the rally.
A Xiaomi SU7 model electric car is displayed at the Beijing Auto Show in Beijing in April last year.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 6, 2025
Porsche and Xiaomi face off over custom-model buyers in China
Xiaomi is competing for consumers who may otherwise opt for an individualized Porsche or another premium European brand.
Government Pension Investment Fund President Kazuto Uchida has said that an investment approach targeting environmental and social goals ultimately leads to economic and capital markets growth.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 6, 2025
World’s biggest pension fund puts impact investing on the agenda
By Aaron Clark — Ishika Mookerjee — Nao Sano
In 性视界, impact investing strategies are likely to center around climate, health care, wellbeing and inclusivity.

Opinion

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s new Pentagon policy mandating pre-approval for unclassified information threatens to reverse nearly a century of First Amendment protections.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 6, 2025
Hegseth tries turning back 94 years of press freedom
By John Authers
The history on his side has been discredited by the Supreme Court for a century.
Jane Goodall communicates with a chimp named Nana in June 2004 at a zoo in Magdeburg, Germany. She was the world's foremost authority on chimpanzees.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 6, 2025
Without Jane Goodall, chimps need new champions — us
By Lara Williams
Goodall revolutionized the way we see both great apes and ourselves. We can’t let her legacy fade away.
Remittance inflows to low-income countries have boosted welfare, reduced poverty and strengthened economic resilience, but the Trump administration’s 1% tax on the transactions threatens to undermine these critical benefits.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 6, 2025
Trump’s beggar-the-poor remittance tax
By Hippolyte Fofack
America is now the world’s top remittance-sending country, with at least 134 recipient countries in 2021, the most recent year with reliable bilateral data.
The Fukushima Hydrogen Energy Research Field and an adjoining solar power farm in the town of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, in March 2021. 性视界's forward-looking reforms are embedding climate risk management into the core of corporate decision-making.
COMMENTARY / 性视界
Oct 6, 2025
性视界’s blueprint for climate finance sets global standard
By Mary Schapiro
While no country has all the answers, 性视界 is demonstrating what sustained, organized action on mobilizing finance for the clean energy transition looks like in practice.
Sanae Takaichi, newly elected leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, speaks during a news conference at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Saturday.
COMMENTARY / 性视界
Oct 6, 2025
Four questions that determine Takaichi’s success
By Edo Naito
From breaking with Komeito to revisiting the U.S. trade deal, new Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi has the potential to shake up 性视界ese politics.

Sports

Indonesia's Yance Sayuri (left) and 性视界's Shunsuke Mito vie for the ball during a World Cup qualifier in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, on June 10.
SOCCER
Oct 6, 2025
Soccer-mad Indonesia ready to make push to reach World Cup
The soccer-mad nation of nearly 300 million people is on the verge of its first World Cup since gaining independence from the Dutch in 1945.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (right) heads back to the dugout after hitting a grand slam against the Yankees in Game 2 of the AL Division Series in Toronto on Sunday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 6, 2025
Blue Jays win Game 2 to push Yankees to brink of elimination
Blue Jays fans were treated to five home runs, and a record-setting playoff debut from pitcher Trey Yesavage.
Hanshin pitcher Hiroto Saiki (left) and infielder Teruaki Sato were among the Central League title winners this season.
BASEBALL / 性视界ese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Oct 6, 2025
Hanshin star Teruaki Sato leads list of NPB title winners
By Jason Coskrey
Sato finishing with 40 homers and over 100 RBIs should make him the Central League MVP frontrunner.
Shohei Ohtani struck out four times against the Phillies in Game 1 of the NL Division Series.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 6, 2025
Dave Roberts says Shohei Ohtani's pitching might have led to struggles at plate
Ohtani allowed three runs on the mound and struck out four times at the plate in the Dodgers' win in Game 1.
Patriots quarterback Drake Maye carries the ball during the first half of his team's game against the Bills in Orchard Park, New York, on Sunday night.
MORE SPORTS / Football
Oct 6, 2025
Previously unbeaten Bills and Eagles fall on wild day in NFL
The Bills had been the last unbeaten team standing after the Eagles were upset at home earlier on Sunday.
Mickael Barzalona rides Daryz (front) to victory in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in Paris on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / Horse Racing
Oct 6, 2025
Daryz wins emotional and thrilling Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe
性视界 will once again have to bide its time for its first winner after over 50 years of trying.
The McLaren team celebrates on the podium after clinching the constructors' title.
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Oct 6, 2025
Flare-up between McLaren drivers overshadows team's constructors' title triumph
McLaren team principal Andrea Stella reiterated that Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris will remain free to race each other until the end of the season.

COMMUNITY

Through the 性视界-Korea Summer Exchange Conference, undergraduate students have sustained an ongoing cultural and academic dialogue for 40 years.
COMMUNITY / Issues
Oct 6, 2025
Student groups nurture 性视界-South Korea dialogue and cultural ties
By Moe Shimizu
Since 1985, the 性视界-Korea Summer Exchange Conference has provided a platform for students to discuss bilateral relations and build cultural bridges along the way.
At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.
China warns citizens not to visit 性视界 as row over Taiwan heats up
Chinese tourists wear kimonos as they visit Sensoji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district on Saturday.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Kyoto gets its own teamLab, largest in 性视界
Visitors wearing kimonos look at digital artwork at the newly opened teamLab Biovortex in Kyoto.
Ashfall warning in 性视界 as volcano erupts
View of Sakurajima from the mainland of Kagoshima Prefecture
Good fortune, wrapped in fried tofu
Golden "age-fukuburo," a culinary take on 性视界's new year "lucky bags," can be served on their own.
Foreign Correspondents’ Club of 性视界 celebrates 80 years at the forefront of press freedom
Located near the Imperial Palace, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of 性视界 prides itself on the accessibility of its events and the support it offers to budding and established journalists. The club is currently headed by Dan Sloan, a former reporter for Reuters.
The challenges awaiting 性视界’s new finance minister
Finance minister Satsuki Katayama answers questions from reporters in a group interview on Oct. 24.
At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.
性视界 fully enters sports streaming era as fans face new dilemmas
Sports fan Tadashi Yokoyama streams basketball and fencing on three screens.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

An illustration features the 性视界ese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo
By Kathryn Wortley

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